30-32c load cpu temps? sheesh!

[Node]

I dont know how you people with overclocked systems keep your temps so low.

I have an XP1700+ overclocked to 2250mhz (185fsb) on 2.00v. I have a well ventilated Lian-Li PC70 (two 32cfm fans in front, 4 32cfm and 1 80cfm exhaust). The radiator is mounted on the top with the 80cfm fan sucking out air. Right now Im ambient at 43c idle and 31c case temperature. Im using distilled+water wetter.

Are there any tricks I'm missing here?

[ToolBox]

What wateterblock? Is it mounted correctly?

[Giblet Plus!]

Originally posted by Node

Are there any tricks I'm missing here?

A 80mm fan? Is that the size of your radiator?

Also, 2V seems like a lot for 2.25 ghz. Is your XP1700 a good OCer?

[MLMIB]

man ur lucky, my temp is like 48 load :-/ 'n mines 11x200(not to thread steal)

[Node]

i've got cathar's little river waterblock. I know I mounted it correctly, even though I lost the instructions. The radiator fan is 120mm with a shroud, sucking air out of the case.

[Soja]

What are your load temps? I sure as hell don't get 32c load temps or even see 32c idle but as long as my overclock is stable I could care less about temps (within a reasonable range) ;)

[JFettig]

I get 33c load :D























If I had only told you that, you would only envy me and feel sorry for yourself.

Its cold down here. 66f and Im running evaporative cooling(kinda like a bong) my water is right at or below ambient. not possible with a regular radiator setup.

[fafnir]

well i'm at 60 degrees idle and i know its not a seating problem or the bios but its chirping along at 2500mhz (15x166) and 2.2v so i'm all happy about it and all...

and yes, its cold outside too, but no, in the room its kinda warm...


but see alike JFettig used to point out before and also cathar, sometimes its just the cpu, and ur temps don't matter (within reason, e.g. not 150 celcius) and ultimately its not how good ur cooling can go, but how tall you are and how much you weigh (oh wait, off topic) but anyways, it ends up being about how fast you end up and stability, not if you *can* get a 32 celcius load temp or what have ya

[Tyranos]

Originally posted by fafnir
well i'm at 60 degrees idle and i know its not a seating problem or the bios but its chirping along at 2500mhz (15x166) and 2.2v so i'm all happy about it and all...

and yes, its cold outside too, but no, in the room its kinda warm...


but see alike JFettig used to point out before and also cathar, sometimes its just the cpu, and ur temps don't matter (within reason, e.g. not 150 celcius) and ultimately its not how good ur cooling can go, but how tall you are and how much you weigh (oh wait, off topic) but anyways, it ends up being about how fast you end up and stability, not if you *can* get a 32 celcius load temp or what have ya

What cpu?

[Fast420A]

Do you need that much voltage to run stable? I was running at 1.95 but was able to drop it down to 1.89 with the same overclock which dropped my load temps from mid 40's to 42.

[fafnir]

its a cherry barton 2500+... at first i had all these problems getting it over 2.3ghz, thought it just wasn't good or something but then one day i fed it 2v vcore and *poof* a miracle happened and then behold, if i had a bit better cooling maybe it'll go 2.6ghz...

so far with a serious volt mod it it'll top out at 70 celcius before it goes REALLY unstable... for prime95 to last i'd have to drop idle to 57.5celcius or better otherwise prime would bluescreen if let run overnight....

i think its a aqxea stepping or something...

[Cathar]

If it's stable, then it's worth repeating again that no motherboard is calibrated, and there are the odd boards that will report extraordinarily high temperatures, and still be perfectly stable.

One thing that is important to check though is the water temperature. This can often be the only way to identify a radiator/air-flow issue, which can be having negative effects on one's cooling. Radiators do clog with dust over time, and sometimes in a matter of months one can be seeing 10C higher temps for no adequately explained reason due to the radiator getting clogged.

[fafnir]

thanks Cathar, though this is the second time i've seen you give a reply to a thread like this.. but then again a temp-o-meter in my res gives a 40-45 celcius read so i know its not cool... and then again koolance isn't the coolest thing out there,..

i'd have to say again, its not about ur temps, they don't mean much... they're just there for reference...

you might wanna check temps with something external, cause seriously sometimes temps just mean, well, nothing...

and i'm awefully i'm hitting the 60's and i've got it stable.. e.g. koolance block is burning hot to touch, and then water is really really really warm, e.g. resevoir is kinda hot to touch too and the radiator blows out nothing but hot air....

cause serious, dun worry about it... if i'm cool, then you're definitely cool

[LtBlue14]

could be the water wetter

read this page: http://forum.oc-forums.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=142006&perpage=20&pagenumber=3

WW can, ironically, have bad effects when used in conjunction with a block like the WW, because of its skinny channels

[Cathar]

Originally posted by fafnir
thanks Cathar, though this is the second time i've seen you give a reply to a thread like this.. but then again a temp-o-meter in my res gives a 40-45 celcius read so i know its not cool... and then again koolance isn't the coolest thing out there,..


I have an external radiator box that sits on the floor.

One thing I've noticed, and measured, is that the air at floor level can be up to 5C cooler than the air at body height (~5' high). I have thermometers everywhere in my room, and I can honestly say that my water temperatures typically sit below what most people classify as "room temperature", purely because of where the radiator intakes are located.

As an example, at 5' high, the room temperature is typically around 22C or so. On the floor the temperature is around 18-19C. With my dual heater-cores plus squirrel cage car blower set on low, my water temperatures climb from between 2-3C above the radiator intake temperature, and as a result, my water temperatures really do quite often sit below "room temperature" with a radiator setup.

If one's water temperatures are hitting 40-45C, then right there is the opportunity to take up to 25C off your CPU temperatures.

[Soja]

Originally posted by Cathar

If one's water temperatures are hitting 40-45C, then right there is the opportunity to take up to 25C off your CPU temperatures.

Wow cathar, reading your reply made me wonder what my water temps were. I looked around for an old compunurse and taped it to the outlet on my radiator and lo and behold my water temps were 39c? So I pulled out my radiator and found out I had 2 120mms in a "pull pull" configuration! One of the fans I have is an odd T&T which has no labels whatsoever which has made me mount it incorrectly multiple times :bang head